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A New Tool In The Spam War
Ethan Preston, 2005-01-12

Arbitration is part of the next wave of security measures, and can be effective against spammers who illegally harvest email addresses from a honeypot on your website.

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A New Tool In The Spam War 2005-01-15
Anonymous
What stops spammers from rewriting their harvester to check for 'contract' or 'license' on the page, and just skip the honeypot email address?
It seems too easy to circumvent.. although it may catch a bunch who don't care enough or aren't hard core. 50/50...

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